{"id":11570,"date":"2019-03-05T10:29:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T23:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=11570"},"modified":"2019-03-05T10:29:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T23:59:02","slug":"fulbright-professor-here-until-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2019\/03\/05\/fulbright-professor-here-until-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulbright professor here until May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fulbright.org.au\/current-scholars\/#Donald-shepard\">Professor Donald S Shepard<\/a> is this year\u2019s Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Flinders University and Carnegie Mellon University Australia.<\/p>\n<p>His public policy research develops methods and applications of cost and cost-benefit analysis in the US and globally, including the Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY) model and incentives to reduce major infectious and chronic diseases affecting countries across the income spectrum, such as dengue, HIV-AIDS, tuberculosis and heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Shepard, who directs the Cost and Value Group at the Heller School for Social Policy and management at Brandeis University, near Boston (USA), holds a MPP and PhD in public policy from Harvard University and has published three books and 200 peer-reviewed papers.<\/p>\n<p>In South Australia under his Fulbright award, Professor Shepard is collaborating with the State Government on an economic evaluation and on financing options for a new sterile insect program, both to support agricultural economy and as a possible model to manage dengue in various countries.<\/p>\n<p>He recently spoke at CSIRO in Canberra.\u00a0 He will also give lectures at Flinders and Carnegie Mellon \u2013 including one planned for Flinders University on 16 May \u2013 covering applications of benefit-cost analysis both in South Australia and globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Donald S Shepard is this year\u2019s Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Flinders University and Carnegie Mellon University Australia. His public policy research develops methods and applications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1200,"featured_media":11571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}